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20 Church Walks Bury St Edmunds Suffolk IP33 1NJ

DC/24/1750/LBLB Consent to alter/extendApproved
Listed building consent

Approved on 6 February 2025

Council decision: Approve applicationDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Application for Listed Building Consent - a. bricking up existing outbuilding opening to the South of the site, b. forming a new opening to outbuilding to access church walks, c. replacement of existing steel framed window within a shared boundary wall overlooking Bridewell Lane Terraces garden

Received
28 November 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Abbeygate
Agent
Bright Architecture Ltd
  1. Received28 Nov
  2. Validated9 Dec
  3. Consult.12 Jan
  4. Target6 Feb
  5. Decided6 Feb

Decided in 59 days

About this application

This is a planning application for an outbuilding at 20 Church Walks Bury St Edmunds Suffolk IP33 1NJ. West Suffolk has handled 6,990 applications of this type. This one was decided in 70 days, 2 weeks longer than West Suffolk's typical decision time. The site is in the Bury St Edmunds Town Centre conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 73 applications across Abbeygate. We hold 486 applications in total for the IP33 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
IP33 1NJ
Application type
LB Consent to alter/extend
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Bury St Edmunds Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
9 December 2024
Consultation expiry
28 January 2025
Consultation start
12 December 2024
Consultation end
12 January 2025
Neighbour consultation end
5 January 2025
Target decision date
6 February 2025
Permission expires
6 February 2028

Applicant and agent

Agent
Bright Architecture Ltd
Architect profile
BRIGHT ARCHITECTURE LTD
Agent address
139 Southgate Street Bury Saint Edmunds IP33 2AF

Planning decision

Statutory period
59 days

Publicity

Last advertised
20 December 2024
Advertisement expiry
13 January 2025
Site notice start
7 January 2025
Site notice end
28 January 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13597529
Documents
15
Constraints
18

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Bury St Edmunds Town Centre
  • Listed building: Grade II: 9-12, Bridewell LaneOn or next to this site · +1 more
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions. Ask the council if these matter.

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (20)

flood storage areas, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2025
    31 Oct

    Householder planning application - addition of chimney to rear elevation

    ApprovedHouseholderDC/25/1715/HH

Source: West Suffolk

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